Project description:Background: The adaptor protein Linker for activation of T cell (LAT) is a key signaling hub used by the T cell antigen receptor. Mice with a mutation at the LAT-PLCγ1 binding site (Y136) have a defect in thymocyte development due to dampened TCR signaling. CD4 + T cells that do reach the periphery are hyper-activated and skewed to Th2. Over time, these mice develop an autoimmune-like syndrome, characterize by overproduction of Th2 cytokines, T cell infiltration into various organs, and B cell activation, isotype switching, and autoantibody production. In this study, we established LatY136F and LatY136F-CD45 KO mice and using them to investigate to role of CD45 in TCR signalling via flow cytometry and scRNA sequencing. Conclusion: Knockout CD45 in LatY136F mice affact T cell activation
Project description:Exploration of proteome differences between CD45+ and CD45- cell types in renal cell carcinoma tumors and normal adjacent tissue patient samples.
Project description:To assess whether Dusp6 deficiency exerts alteration to intestinal immune cells specifically, we further applied the single-cell RNA sequencing with 10X Genomics platform in Dusp6-knockout (D6KO) mice and littermate wild-type (WT) control mice under chow diet. The intestines of wild-type and Dusp6-knockout mice (11 weeks old) were harvested and the live intestinal immune cells from the intraepithelial compartment and the laminar propria were collected with CD45+ marker by magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) MicroBeads and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) for downstream 10X Genomics Chromium Single Cell 3' Solution.
Project description:Single-cell RNA-sequencing of CD45+ splenocytes from aged WT, miR146a knockout, and miR146a-miR155 T cell conditional double knockout mice
Project description:Mice with an intestinal epithelial specific knockout of LSD1 have changes in the intestinal epithelium including loss of Paneth and Goblet cells along with a general status of epithelial immaturity. To assess the influence of these epithelial specific changes on the mucosal immune system we performed a scRNAseq on CD45+ immune cells from the small intestine of mice with an epithelial specific LSD1 deletion (Villin-Cre+; Lsd1f/f) and wild type mice (Villin-Cre -; Lsd1f/f). To rule out a possible influence of the bacterial microbiome in the observed changes in CD45+ cell types we performed the same experiment in mice treated with antibiotics. These data allowed us to pinpoint changes in the cell populations of the mucosal immune system upon loss of LSD1 in the intestinal epithelium such as IgA producing cells and ILCs.
Project description:To better understand the role of the COX-2-dependent lung fibroblast program in modulating the lung immune microenvironment, we generated fibroblast-targeted Ptgs2 conditional knockout (cKO) mice by crossing Pdgfra-Cre mice with Ptgs2flox/flox mice. Then we determined how Ptgs2 deficiency in CD140a+ fibroblasts alters the lung immune microenvironment by performing single-cell RNA sequencing on lung CD45+ immune cells from WT and Ptgs2-cKO mice.